A review by corvidprince
Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

This book made me cry. I have gone my whole life reading hundreds upon hundreds of books and I have never felt seen, I have never felt understood. In every essay, I saw a piece of myself that I've never seen reflected in any book before and it hurt, in a good way though.

"To my younger self and all the disabled kids today who can't imagine their futures. The world is ours, and this is for all of us"

I nearly cried when I read this dedication in class. I am crying as I type this because I am that person. I have spent so much of my life feeling like there is no place for me in this world because I have never seen a place for me in this world but this book showed me there is. I didn't know how much I needed this book until I read it. I can't put into words how this book makes me feel, I ache because I see so much of myself in the painful parts of these stories but they've also reminded me that I am not alone and that things get better and that I am valuable and that I have a place in this world.